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[GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Brian H. <ho...@bo...>]

Is there a way to disable ClearType and revert to a cruder form of AA 
(or none at all) when doing font rendering?  I'm rendering to an 
HBITMAP which I then use for a texture, and ClearType doesn't work so 
hot with the rest of the graphics pipeline.

Brian

RE: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Jason S. <ja...@wi...>]

This might help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/gdicpp=
/
GDIPlus/usingGDIPlus/usingtextandfonts/antialiasingwithtext.asp=20

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Subject: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

Is there a way to disable ClearType and revert to a cruder form of AA
(or none at all) when doing font rendering?  I'm rendering to an HBITMAP
which I then use for a texture, and ClearType doesn't work so hot with
the rest of the graphics pipeline.

Brian



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Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Andras B. <and...@gm...>]

When you create your font with CreateFont(), you can specify the 
rendering type with the fdwQuality parameter.


Brian Hook wrote:
> Is there a way to disable ClearType and revert to a cruder form of AA 
> (or none at all) when doing font rendering?  I'm rendering to an 
> HBITMAP which I then use for a texture, and ClearType doesn't work so 
> hot with the rest of the graphics pipeline.
> 
> Brian

Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Brian H. <ho...@bo...>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:57:00 -0700, Andras Balogh wrote:
> When you create your font with CreateFont(), you can specify the
> rendering type with the fdwQuality parameter.

I wasn't under the impression that it provided a fine grain selection 
between CT, AA, and point sample?

Brian

Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

MSDN documents CLEARTYPE_QUALITY as separate from ANTIALIAS_QUALITY, for 
Windows XP and above. You can also set NONANTIALIASED_QUALITY which will 
make the font not anti-alias (works on all Windows).

A font needs to be selected into a physical device DC before it will do 
anti-aliasing. Thus, if you create a font, and only select it into a 
DIBsection DC, it will draw without anti-aliasing. You can then upload 
this text to a texture or whatnot to render to screen (or draw the 
DIBsection). It's roundabout, but documented, and works.

Cheers,

			/ h+


Brian Hook wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:57:00 -0700, Andras Balogh wrote:
> 
>>When you create your font with CreateFont(), you can specify the
>>rendering type with the fdwQuality parameter.
> 
> 
> I wasn't under the impression that it provided a fine grain selection 
> between CT, AA, and point sample?
> 
> Brian


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Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Brian H. <ho...@bo...>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:30:05 -0800, Jon Watte wrote:
>
> MSDN documents CLEARTYPE_QUALITY as separate from
> ANTIALIAS_QUALITY, for Windows XP and above. 

Argh, not in my version of MSDN and SDK tools =3D/  Anyway, this'll 
work, thanks!

Brian

Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Andras B. <and...@gm...>]

While we are at tools: Did you know that Visual C++ 2005 Express is
absolutely free (even for commercial use)? It features the same
optimizing compiler, and the only major things it misses are the ATL
and MFC libraries, and some advanced features like remote debugging..
It also uses the online MSDN for help, which means it does not eat up
your harddrive, and it's more up to date. I think it's worth giving a
try.

I'm sorry if this is not news, but I've only found it out recently and
was pleasantly surprised. I think it's great for indie developers.


Andras

Saturday, January 14, 2006, 12:18:15 AM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:30:05 -0800, Jon Watte wrote:
>>
>> MSDN documents CLEARTYPE_QUALITY as separate from
>> ANTIALIAS_QUALITY, for Windows XP and above.

> Argh, not in my version of MSDN and SDK tools =/  Anyway, this'll
> work, thanks!

> Brian

VC++ 2005 Express was Re: [GD-Windows] Disabling ClearType programmatically?

[Brian H. <ho...@bo...>]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:02:34 -0700, Andras Balogh wrote:
> While we are at tools: Did you know that Visual C++ 2005 Express is
> absolutely free (even for commercial use)? 

Yeah, but I still use VC++ 6.0 w/ Visual Assist.  Kickin' it old 
school.  Every release since then has pissed me off righteously in 
some way or another.

Brian